Ho Ho Horror

December 13, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment 

It hard to find Christmas images that are different but the skeleton that the owner has standing outside the Science Works store on Oak Bay Avenue is always dressed properly for the season and at this time of the year the contrast is a little shocking. Not quite a shocking as the year the late artist Jimmy Wright erected a crucified Santa (pic below) on a field facing the road on his rural property. It was a protest against the commercialization of Christmas and caused quite a fuss when it was it went up.

Afternoon Commute, Vancouver Island Style

December 12, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment 

Heading home in a small boat off Turkey Head with the setting sun lighting up Mt. Baker (in Washington State) in the background.

Early Morning Moon

December 10, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment 

Out early at Cadboro Bay looking for a sunrise photo and on the way back to the car saw this tree and the waning moon. I like the graphic beauty of the bare winter trees.

This was the sunrise photo,  a runner stretching on the beach.

Artist Portraits

December 8, 2009 | Filed Under Photography, Portrait | Leave a Comment 

I really enjoying taking portraits, especially of creative people. It’s always interesting to try and incorporate their environment into the image.With tighter papers, every section is squeezed for space so we’re not running as many entertainment stories and consequently not as many portraits of artists etc.  Here are a few, fairly recent, images.

I really liked this image of Keith Hiscock at the Morris Gallery. They were just starting to hang his new show, those are his paintings on the floor, but behind him hung a couple of paintings from the last show, an exhibition from the estate of  Myfanwy Pavelic including a portrait of artist Maxwell Bates in his studio.

This probably showed off Keith’s painting better and I liked his expression but I still like the first image best. A tighter head shot with painting behnd actually ran in the paper.

Mark Heine in his home studio, it’s encouraging to see you don’t need a great big space to create.

Ben Westergreen paints in his front room, it was tight and kind of dark so I just had him lie down on one of his paintings.

Noah Layne paints portraits, self portraits too. He’d just won an award for one.

Robert Amos had been creating collages of artists in their studios. This was my attempt to capture him using his own technique. I think he does it better.

Robert with some of his collages. He also paints, does calligraphy etc etc etc.

Prince Charles and International Hockey

December 2, 2009 | Filed Under Photography, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

A nice variety of assignments these days with the recent launch of the Olympic Torch Run here as well a vist from Prince Charles with Camilla and international junior hockey with Team WHL vs Team Russia.

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